This is no ordinary election season for Tamil Nadu Chief Minister J Jayalalithaa: she has been positioned by her party as a prime ministerial candidate, making the contest in Tamil Nadu more keenly......

Part I of Rajeev Srinivasan's column: Presidential peccadilloes: Obama's macaca and the UPA's chutzpah It is a fair question as to whether there is a whiff of a Manchurian Candidate in the Indian......